Stirrup.



No. 746,126. PATEN-T E D DEC. 8, 1903;

w.'L. MYERSg STIRRUP.

nrmonron rum) Aim-15, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. MYERS, OF INDUSTRY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES SOUDDER, OF INDUSTRY, ILLINOIS.

STIRRUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,126, dated December 8, 1903. Application filed August 15. 1903. Serial No. 169,629. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indnstry, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Stirrup, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in stirrups, and has for its principal IO object to provide a stirrup of simple and economical construction, consisting of few parts, and capable of adjustment to any desired position to facilitate mounting.

A further object of the invention is to provide a stirrup that may be adjusted to facilitate mounting and in which the stirrup will remain in the position to which it is adjusted without the necessity of holding the stirrup or stirrup-strap while the rider is mounting. A still further object of the invention is to provide an improved form of stirrup in which the stirrup proper is yieldably mounted or suspended in such manner that the rider may rise from the animal without being subjected to any jar or strain, and, further, in which provision is made for adj usting the yieldable connection in accordance with theweight of the rider.

With these and other objects in View, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed'out in the append- 5 ed claim, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportions, size, and minor detail of the structure may be made 7 without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention. In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the stirrup constructed in accordance with the invention.

a longi'tudinal'sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the top 5 piece of the stirrup detached.

Similar'nnmerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

Fig. 2 is In the drawings, 1 designates the ordinary loop, usually formed of astrip of wood. The 5o I 4., that are bent around the outer edges of the A loop and are then secured in place by rivets or other securing devices, as indicated at 5.

The securing devices are preferably extended through both the ears, the loop ends, and the flanges 3, so that the ends of the loop may befirmly and positively clamped and held in place, movement in any direction independent of the cross-bar being rendered impossible.

At the center of the cross-bar is an opening for the passage of a shank or stem 6 of the stirrup-strap-attachiug loop 7. The lower end of the shank or stem is threaded for the reception of an adjustable nut 8, and between the top of this nut and the inner surface of the cross-bar is arranged a helical compres-' sion-spring 9, that normally tends to keep the stirrup-loop in elevated position, excessive movement being prevented by the contact of a washer 10, surrounding the shank or stem, 8

with the lower portion of the stirrup-strapattaching loop.

In. mounting the stirrup may be readily turned, with the shank or stem as a center, un-. til the stirrup-loop is in a position convenient for the insertion of the foot of the rider, and owing to the frictional strain exerted by the spring on thennder surface of the cross-bar the stirrup will be maintained in any position to which it may be adjusted, thus rendering it unnecessary tohold the stirrup in position during mounting, as is often necessary in the use of stirrups of ordinary construction. Should the rider wish" to rise from the backof the animal, he may stand up in the stir- 5 rups, and his weight will be borne by the springs, yielding connection preventing the jar and strain usually experienced with stirrnps of ordinary construction.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is In a stirrup, the combination with a stirruploop, of a metallic cross-bar for connecting the upper ends of the loop, said cross-bar having opposite depending end flanges for engaging the inner faces of the loop and the opposite ends of said flanges being provided with ears embracing the edges and outer faces of the loops to thereby prevent lateral play in any direction, and seeming devices passing through the ears,the loop ends and the flanges. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto ai'fixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM L. MYERS. \Vitnesses:

CHAS. W. FLAOK, Z. W. HARRIS. 

